Gary Louris - Almost Home
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KEXP
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🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Gary Louris - "Almost Home" from the 2021 album Jump For Joy on Sham/Thirty Tigers.
It's been a while since Gary Louris has released a solo album, but The Jayhawks frontman returns on June 4th with the full-length Jump For Joy, his first since 2008's Vagabond.
Today's Song of the Day was originally meant to be a jingle for an AT&T commercial. When they turned it down, a friend suggested Quaker. When they changed their mind on using it, he told American Songwriter he "wrote a chorus and a verse, and a bridge, and it became what it was supposed to be.”
He continues, saying that lyrically, the song is "a lot of looking back, reassessing with a microscope, then at a distance — so from outer space to nose-on-the-ground. Life sometimes carries you in new ways, but if you can stop and look around, you can learn to appreciate where you are, instead of where you’re going and where you’ve been.”
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:06.0 | Mounds of empty skies and never winding streets |
| 0:10.0 | So incomplete and known |
| 0:13.0 | When I close my eyes I always see your face |
| 0:17.0 | I hear your voice I know no sound |
| 0:21.0 | Music |
| 0:29.0 | Well I've always been an out sort of fella |
| 0:33.0 | And my mind gets to a moment I guess |
| 0:36.0 | But when I'm far away I can still see that day |
| 0:40.0 | And you can have a little wet dress |
| 0:44.0 | Music |
| 0:51.0 | Remember that flat tire I'm week 41 |
| 0:54.0 | We had a darn ride a little late |
| 0:58.0 | And when we went swimming make it in a romance pond |
| 1:02.0 | Drunken sand sweeping |
| 1:05.0 | Mounds of empty skies and never winding streets |
| 1:09.0 | So incomplete and known |
| 1:13.0 | When I close my eyes I always see your face |
| 1:17.0 | I hear your voice I know no sound |
| 1:21.0 | Music |
| 1:27.0 | There's no destination nights |
| 1:30.0 | I always check in flights |
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